

Corkwood, 



(Ackama Muelleri, Benth.) 



It is only occasionally that this timber finds its way into the Sydney market. It is 

 specifically light, very easy to plane, soft, with a close grain, having a small neat figure when 

 cut on the quarter. The colour is a warm chocolate. It is only suitable for indoor work, and 

 even then only when little strength is required. It could be used for the interior decoration of 

 aeroplane taxi-cabs, owing to its lightness and rich red colour, and also for skirtings, mouldings, 

 sashes, and flooring. 



Description of the Tree. An average brush tree, with a slightly corky bark. Leaves 

 opposite, pinnate; leaflets usually five, rarely seven, ovate elliptical, or ovate lanceolate, 

 acuminate, obtusely and very shortly serrate, varying in length up to 9 inches, penni- 

 veined, venation well marked on the underside. Domatia presen-t in the axils of the 

 primary veins. Flowers very small, very numerous, in compound panicles in terminal 

 pairs, becoming axillary by the elongation of the central shoot. Fruit a small capsule, 

 turgid, septicidally dehiscent. 



Geographical Range. Scrubs along North Coast Railway, Queensland, and south 

 to brush forests, Gosford, New South Wales. 



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